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Exploring the "mechanics" of firm growth : evidence from a short-panel VAR

Coad, Alex - HAL - 2007

This paper offers many new insights into the processes of firm growth by applying a vector autoregression (VAR) model to longitudinal panel data on French manufacturing firms. We observe the co-evolution of key variables such as growth of employment, sales, gross operating surplus and labour...

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Neoclassical vs Evolutionary Theories of Financial Constraints : Critique and Prospectus

Coad, Alex - HAL - 2007

Complicated neoclassical models predict that if investment is sensitive to current financial performance, this is a sign that something is "wrong" and is to be regarded as a problem for policy. Evolutionary theory, on the other hand, refers to the principle of "growth of the fitter" to explain...

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The employment effects of innovation

Coad, Alex; Rao, Rekha - HAL - 2007

The issue of technological unemployment receives perennial popular attention. Although there are previous empirical investigations that have focused on the relationship between innovation and employment, the originality of our approach lies in our choice of method. We focus on four 2-digit...

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Innovation and firm growth in "complex technology" sectors : a quantile regression approach

Coad, Alex; Rao, Rekha - HAL - 2006

Innovation is commonly seen as the principal engine of economic development. In this paper, we investigate the microfoundations of economic growth by relating innovation to sales growth at the firm-level, for incumbent firms in four «complex technology» sectors. The average firm, which...

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Understanding the processes of firm growth - a closer look at serial growth rate correlation

Coad, Alex - HAL - 2006

Serial correlation in annual growth rates carries a lot of information on growth processes - it allows us to directly observe firm performance as well as to test hypotheses. Using a 7-year balanced panel of 10 000 French manufacturing firms, we observe that small firms typically are subject to...

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Firm Growth : a Survey

Coad, Alex - HAL - 2007

We survey the phenomenon of the growth of firms drawing on literature from economics, management and sociology. We …

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To what extent do exemptions from social security contributions affect firm growth? New evidence using quantile estimations on panel data

Levratto, Nadine; Garsaa, Aziza; Tessier, Luc - HAL - 2013

Targeted reductions in employers' social security contributions are conceived as a key policy instrument used to facilitate job creation when labour cost is so high that it may deter companies from hiring new employees. Among the different measures implemented in France, the set of instruments...

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From Wife to Widow Entrepreneur in French Family Businesses An Invisible-Visible Role in Passing on the Business to the Next Generation

Robic, Paulette; Antheaume, Nicolas - HAL - 2012

In this article we highlight the role played by widows in French Family businesses. We take a historical point of view in order to highlight the significance of our topic. We show the role of French family law in enabling widows to become entrepreneurs. Then we relate the life of the wife of a...

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Organizational Learning and Knowledge DevelopmentPeculiarities in Small and Medium Family Enterprises

Basly, Sami - HAL - 2007

, hermetic and rigid organization. Besides, the specificity of mechanisms of learning and knowledge management, in general … within the family firm. This organization runs particular risks because of the peculiarity of its knowledge management … firms show an inclination to concentrate the processes of knowledge management around its tacit dimension by encouraging its …

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Internationalization of family firms in a knowledge-based view

Basly, Sami - HAL - 2005

(Cabrera-Suarez and ali., 2002). The specificity of mechanisms of learning and knowledge management within the family firms are … constitute, for example, supplementary occasions of exchange and sharing of knowledge.The typical paternalistic management of the … advantage of its rights of decision and control, the family dominates the management of knowledge. Family firms weakly …

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